Inspired Learners, Active Minds

A Guide for the English Classroom

Dennis J. Kafalas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2008
Rowman & Littlefield Education (Verlag)
978-1-57886-723-3 (ISBN)

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Inspired Learners, Active Minds: A Guide for the English Classroom is a step-by-step, year-long teaching plan that has practical and easy-to-use best practice strategies for secondary English teachers. The book lays out an instructional model that improves literacy for every single student. With this guide, teachers will develop reading fluency, improve essay and research paper writing, and purposefully integrate literature into their classrooms by using student-centered lessons and examples.

Inspired Learners, Active Minds helps students think critically and enthusiastically about reading, writing, literature, and portfolios.

Dennis Kafalas has taught middle and high school English in urban and suburban settings for twenty years. He has worked with a variety of students in interesting and insightful ways.

Chapter 1 Why Use Reading and Writing Workshop?
Chapter 2 Suspending Disbelief
Chapter 3 First Step: Choice and Ownership of Reading and Writing
Chapter 4 The Writer's Notebook
Chapter 5 The Writing Workshop
Chapter 6 Grading
Chapter 7 Bringing Literature into the Classroom
Chapter 8 Performance Based Exams
Chapter 9 Writing the Research Paper
Chapter 10 Portfolios, Assessment and Metacognition
Chapter 11 Starting the School Year in the Workshop Model

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.6.2008
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 226 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
ISBN-10	1-57886-723-1 / 1578867231
ISBN-13	978-1-57886-723-3 / 9781578867233
Zustand	Neuware